SN 754: The Internet of Troubles




Security Now (Audio) show

Summary: <p>TWiT Audience Survey- ENDS FEBRUARY 19TH!!!</p><ul> <li>It's time for TWiT's annual audience survey and we want to hear from you! It only takes five minutes.</li> <li>Please visit twit.tv/survey and let us know what you think.</li> <li>There's no sign-up form and we don't track you. Your feedback helps us make TWiT even better."</li> </ul><p><br>This Week's Stories</p><ul> <li>How to fix the Windows 7 "You don't have permission to shut down this computer." error</li> <li>Win10's "One Button PC Reset" fails after KB4524244.</li> <li>And, also... "The new disappearing User Profile problem" (Desktop and all user data) </li> <li>The popular "GDPR Cookie Consent" Wordpress plugin had a critical flaw</li> <li>Whoa! The average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout</li> <li>Microsoft's "ElectionGuard" being used for the first time today!</li> <li>IoT lightbulb vulnerabilities are not such a joke, after all.</li> <li>SweynTooth Vulnerabilities: a set of more than 12 newly discovered vulnerabilities across a wide range of Bluetooth devices, many of which will never be updated, which allow for, among other things, full device compromise.</li> </ul><p>We invite you to read our show notes at <a href="https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-754-Notes.pdf">https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-754-Notes.pdf</a></p> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/steve-gibson">Steve Gibson</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/security-now">https://twit.tv/shows/security-now</a>.</p> <p>You can submit a question to Security Now! at the <a href="https://www.grc.com/feedback.htm" target="_blank">GRC Feedback Page</a>.</p> <p>For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: <a href="https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm" target="_blank">grc.com</a>, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written <a href="https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm" target="_blank">Spinrite 6</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://WWT.COM/TWIT">WWT.COM/TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://FreshBooks.com/securitynow">FreshBooks.com/securitynow</a></li> <li><a href="http://canary.tools/twit">canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT</a></li> </ul>